Blog Archive

20 Sep 2014

Beat The Streets Fundraiser

From Tina Ramos – Founder of CrossFit Kids Boston

When I started my CrossFit journey five years ago I knew this was a training method I wanted to use to help kids and teens. I have been fortunate to be able to use this type of training to help kids while I was at CrossFit Boston. Since June I have been out pursuing the other half of my dream~ making CrossFit accessible to the most needy kids in the City of Boston. I’ve been doing this in partnership with Neil Jacobs, the founder of The 3PointFoundation.

The core mission of The 3PointFoundation is to help inner city kids prepare and go to college. The teachers who work in the program do this by taking the kids out of the city and to a summer camp over a 4-week period—an academic camp. For 8 hours a day these kids must be in the classroom studying the basics of math, writing and reading. It’s a rigorous program for most 5th grade students and on top of the high academic expectation is a curriculum that the boys must live everyday—high character expectations. The boys are held to high standards of behavior and the curriculum makes character a part of the daily requirements.

During the school year the academic preparation continues at the Reggie Lewis Center every week.

The hook is basketball. Thus, the 3Points ~ academics, character and basketball. This year we are adding a new hook, CrossFit! I am writing to you the CrossFit Boston community to get involved and help support us as we branch out. You love CrossFit and you know these boys and girls will! What does your support go towards? Great question!

We are first trying to build awareness amongst many leading CrossFit communities in and around Boston. We are letting you know we will be launching our program at the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury. We are raising funds to help pay for equipment and eventually send CrossFit coaches to Kid certification courses. We have a plan to make this program a part of the bigger Steve’s Club National Program for at-risk youth. With your support we can make this one of the strongest programs in the nation. The goal is to have a CrossFit program for inner city youth at the Reggie Lewis Center and to help these kids continue to pursue excellence in school so that someday they can go to college.

Who knows, one day these 5th grade kids may become a member of the CFB community but it all starts on Saturday, October 4th.

We are having BEAT The Streets Throw Down at CFB during the morning hours. Get your team ready ~ One Male and One Female per team. Scaled and Rx Divisions! Sign up on the white board with your partner.

What you donate is up to you. We are so happy to have you join our BEAT The Streets Team!

When: Saturday, October 4th

Time: WOD 1 takes off at 9 a.m. with Scaled Division; followed right after by the Rx Division

WOD 2 starts at 10 a.m. with Scaled Division; followed by Rx Division

WOD 3 starts at 11 a.m. with Scaled Division; followed by Rx Division

It’s a morning of competition and celebration. We are celebrating building a wider community for the most needy of our kids in the City of Boston.

And if that wasn’t enough we are continuing the fun at UMass Boston on Sunday, October 12th. The top 3 teams in the Rx and Scaled division will make the finals at UMass Boston and go against the top teams from the other participating affiliates:

Reebok CrossFit Back Bay

CrossFit New England

CrossFit 617

CrossFit Medusa

So get your game face on and get ready to help a kid here in Boston! Your participation is necessary to make this dream a reality. If you can’t compete either day consider volunteering your time.

19 Sep 2014

Congrats to Mike Lee, Megan Larcom, Lauren Casady, Kathryn Levasseur, and Alex Black on shuffling the 500m row leader board on Wednesday. It was truly a great effort as we had quite a few sub 1:30’s for the men and sub 1:50’s for the ladies. After getting some needed rest, y’all attacked a new benchmark named “Plaza of Death”. It is a great bodyweight WOD and feedback I received from many of you is that you enjoyed it. Top 5 scores for the day were: 1.) Vijay 16:39/Sophie 20:18; 2.) Mike L 16:51/Jodie O 20:42; 3.) Brian 17:22/Alex B 22:20; 4.) Ricky 18:22/Linh 22:33; 5.) Filipe 18:23/Lauren 23:30 CONGRATS!

500m row results and “Plaza of Death”

MID-MORNING WOD?

I am researching if there is any interest in scheduling a mid-morning WOD. We have some members whose jobs operate on shifts and our current times are not the most advantageous. What interest is there in producing a 9:30AM or 10AM class on a trial basis a couple days a week?

Each partner must complete the entire piece of work while alternating and with only one person working at a time. For the FS to be unbroken, the bar must remain in the front rack position. Rest at the top of the FS is permitted.

Monday 092214

1. Back Squat – 3 sets x 10 reps @ 20×0work up to as heavy as you can while performing unbroken

1. One rower per team, movements must be performed in order 2. Partner #1 may perform burpees and squat cleans while Partner #2 rows 3. However, once 1000m row is completed, only one partner may work at a time4. Score is number of squat cleans completed

WOD #2: A More Chipper Eleven Point OneComplete as many rounds and reps as possible in 12 minutes of:

1. Partners MAY work at the same time2. All reps must be completed before moving on to next movement3. All movements must be completed in listed order4. Each partner must complete at least one-third of the reps of each movement

WOD #3: Partner CindyComplete as many rounds in 20 minutes as you can of:

5 Pull-ups10 Push-ups15 Squats

1. Only one partner may work at the same time2. Rounds of Mary are an acceptable substitution for rounds of Cindy

12 Sep 2014

It’s Friday baby and it is time to get fired up for the weekend and the next week coming up! It was a great week of training. PR Wednesday saw “Tabata This” and though there were not any changes in the leader board for that workout, we did see some names take the leader board for “Glen”.

Thank you to everyone who came in yesterday and gave his/her all. It means a lot. Courtney has taken the lead spot on the board with a time of 35:05 and Ali is #2 with a time of 37:27. They also were the only two women to finish the workout prescribed. Awesome! For the men, Evan smoked it with a time of 30:55, Mike Lee hit 34:10, Brian “Angry Beaver” finished 34:47, Denis T finished 37:13, and I completed it in 40:32. Again, great work to everyone.

What’s On Tap

Saturday 9/13

1. 10 minutes to work up to a Power Snatch double (heavy but not maximal)

2. EMOM 123 Burpees1 Power Snatch (use the same weight you just worked up to for the double)